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Colour Sound supplies lighting to Slaves

Colour Sound Experiment supplied lighting for punk duo Slaves’ most recent tour which culminated in a show at Brixton Academy in London, with lighting created by Francis Clegg part of design collective Mirrad. Brixton was the biggest venue on the tour, so the lighting was based on this space, but the rig also had to be adaptable and scale-able to fit all the other venues which included a round of academies.

Clegg explained that the band like the stage to be open and clear of clutter so they can maximise the space and zoom around, so this was at the essence of the design, with lighting flown above, and floor kit positioned in an arc upstage of their performance area.

The other proviso was that they wanted it to look chaotic and random in keeping with their vibe. Clegg decided to light the set using whites and colour temperature variations with only a few colours occasionally introduced.

A series of 3 and 4 metre trusses were installed in the roof on 20 points, some sub-hung below each other, all in an “anarchic” style. The 10 angled trusses were each populated with four ProLights Diamond 7 LED beam fixtures. They created four-finger ACL-style and other rock ‘n’ roll punctuations.

The rest of the fixtures were scattered around, by his own admission, it was “a bit of a pain” to rig everything, but the Colour Sound crew of rigger John Lahiffe and Stu Barr took everything in their stride. Clegg was also assisted on the tour by LX tech Tom Taylor.

The other moving lights were all Robe: 10 x BMFL Spots, 8 x LEDWash 1200s, 6 x LEDWash 600s and 16 x CycFX 8s, the latter illuminating the backdrop. There were 20 x Martin Atomics and 24 x Showtec active 2-lite blinders dotted around. Clegg ran the show completely ‘live’.

There was no front truss, but Colour Sound supplied two Robert Juliat Super Corrigan follow spots for picking up the two band members. The set started with minimal lighting and a 50ft wide mid-stage cloth on an electric kabuki in for the first few songs, which then dropped to reveal the majority of the rig behind. Clegg ran all the lighting on an Avolites Sapphire Touch with a Quartz running as backup supplied by Mirrad.

(Photos: Francis Clegg)

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